Gaj beds - Soomrow, Kacch (Miocene of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (30.0° N, 69.9° E: paleocoordinates 23.7° N, 70.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gaj Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the lower Gaj beds, which regionally overlie the Nari beds (Oligocene) and are overlain by the Middle-Late Miocene Mekran beds. AGE: lower Early Miocene, based on similarity with European faunas of Aquitanian age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: from the lower Gaj beds.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text, but presumably shallow shelf siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, but presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, based on figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Vredenburg

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Multiple collectors including W. Blanford, Wynne, Hira Lal, Ram Singh, and Noetling (staff of Geological Survey of India) during the early 1900's. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of India, with voucher specimens possibly at the BMNH.

Primary reference: E. Vredenburg. 1925. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(1):1-350 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77165: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.12.2007

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia, and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Antiquated, but from an authoritative publication, with use of species and subgenus resolution assignments. Nomenclature can be updated through reference to Harzhauser and Swarko publications.
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea prunum" = Callistocypraea (Miolyncina) prunum Sowerby 1839 cowry
SUBSPECIES: Cypraea prunum nasuta
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Persististrombus depertitus Sowerby 1840 true conch
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
"Cassidea (Bezoardica) sculpta" = Semicassis sculpta
"Cassidea (Bezoardica) sculpta" = Semicassis sculpta Sowerby 1839 snail
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Scaphander javanus Martin 1879 snail